I agree. Aces happen when they happen. I know good players who have not had an ace in years. I got my first ace of '12 last week after a 5 month drought and coming close many times. I wondered if I would ever get another.

The best way to get aces is to play a lot on short courses. But aces are not equal. I appreciate aces most in big tournaments (I have had one in the World Championships and one in the State Championships-with the same disc), which provide the winning margin in a tournament (once, with 2 holes to play for a one stroke victory) and aces over 300 feet long (only 3 I recall) and of course, big ace pools.

Aces which count the least: Black Aces ( 1), pure luck aces (2 deflection aces and one roller) and total shank aces which happen to be caught by the basket ( I had one on a basket on a small hill with OB just past the hill, which I was trying to gently skip up next to. Instead I threw a terrible shot, too high and too hard which was rescued by the chains).

I predicted that I would ace Feb 11 of this year 3 or 4 weeks before it happened (and it happened). Once in a tournament I had a feeling that I would ace a hole when I stood up to it, and took a little extra time visualizing my shot (and it went in). We had a $380 ace pot that I was certain I would hit weeks in advance (i did). I had a friend who went to a course on 4/20/10 to get an ace and he got one. I agree with Mark that every ace has different meaning. I don't consider black aces to be the least meaningful (I also don't consider them aces)- black aces are way less common than real aces, and often accompany real aces.

You are right about the bipolar thing. I have never been diagnosed as such but I have my down days and my up days. The last ace that I hit was on an up day of sorts. Actually I was on my way to the liquor store to pick up a couple of beers when my Volvo got T-boned. I was just driving along about one block from the liquor store and an idiot pulled an illegal U-turn and hit me. I was in total disbelief. The car was disabled and I had to catch a ride to the course. Somehow I was in the disc golf zone, however, and I stepped up to a certain hole, looked into the air at where I wanted to throw and drained an ace. It was a bit crazy having the car get hit and then popping an ace all in the same day. Definitely a day of mania. That ace was only worth about $20 as the ace pool had been drained for $564 the week before. Oh well. I bought some beer the next week for everyone.

About a week and a half ago we had a guy hit an ace before the league round and then hit another during the league round.

I also know a guy who drained his first ace in league and then hit another one the same week.